"The Libby decision is yet another example
that this Administration considers itself above the law. This case arose from the Administration's
politicization of national security intelligence and its efforts to punish those who spoke out against its
policies. Four years into the Iraq war, Americans are still living with the consequences of this White
House's efforts to quell dissent. This commutation sends the clear signal that in this Administration,
cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice." --Hillary
Clinton, Link

Excerpt:If someone submitted an op-ed to The Washington
Post that quoted Marie Antoinette saying about starving Parisians "let them eat cake," the Post's
editors surely would strike the apocryphal quote- and the op-ed author would be lucky to escape
with a tongue-lashing about factual sloppiness.

But different rules continue to apply to made-up
quotes for Al Gore. In a June 27 op-ed, Post columnist Ruth Marcus couldn't resist tossing in one of
the favorite joke lines of Campaign 2000, a reference to Gore having declared, "I invented the Internet."

Except, of course, that Gore never spoke the Internet
line anymore than the ill-fated French queen said"let them eat cake." The fake "cake" quote was
put into Marie Antoinette's mouth by French radical propagandists much like the "I invented the Internet"
quote was attached to Gore by his political enemies.

Yet, what does it say about the modern U.S. news
media that such a misrepresentation could succeed in modern times, helping to shape the fateful
outcome of Election 2000 and even continuing into the early days of Campaign 2008?

After all, Marie Antoinette lived more than two
centuries ago, well before tape recorders and electronic media existed. One could understand how a bogus
quote might be attributed to a person when there was no reliable way for taking down statements.

But there was no such excuse in 1999 when Gore's
"I invented the Internet" quote was fabricated. Indeed, the made-up quote derived from remarks
that Gore made during a CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer. Videotape and transcripts were readily available.

Kids in Baghdad playing "execution."
This is what Bush brought to Iraq.

Gee, I wonder why they hate us?

Quotes

"Is there anyone--anyone who actually believes
that Bush plucked Libby from the iron jaws of jail for any other reason than, well...to make
sure he keeps his lying mouth shut on the encyclopedia of felonies and crimes committed by Bush and
Cheney?"
-- Jeffrey Feldman, Link

But even worse, how lame are the Democrats?They knew
this was coming and they refused to warn Bush not to do it.
If Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi had warned him in advance, the pardon
would be seen as
a desperate move to keep Bush & Cheney from being ratted out.

Excerpt:Bush commuted the sentence of "Scooter"
Libby yesterday, sparing him 2 1/2 years in prison after a federalappeals court had refused to let Libby remain
free while he appeals his conviction for lying to federal investigators.

Bush, who for months had sidestepped calls from
conservatives to come to Libby's aid, broke his silence byfollowing in his father's steps of pardoning
the guilty to keep them quiet about presidential crimes.

The action touched off an immediate uproar from
brain-dead Democrats who never saw it coming.They accused the White House of circumventing
the rule of law to protect one of its own.

We told the Democrats again and again to
warn Bush not to do this - but have they ever listened to bartcop.com?

The helpless Democrats are always ten steps behind
the cunning Republicans. When offered suggestions on how to outwit them,
Democrats always reject that helpso they act surprised when the goddamn obvious
happens.

Excerpt:The Clinton sex scandals gave the question of
Hillary and feminism a new twist. Once again, Hillary found herself in a quintessential pre-feminist role:
that of the philandering husband's forgiving wife, standing by her man. Some harshly criticized her for this stance,
suggesting that she sacrificed feminist principle either for love or for
ambition.

This criticism continues today - much of it, interestingly,
coming from women. After Hillary's campaign video spoofing The Sopranos, Maureen Dowd likened Hillary to
Carmela Soprano, the mob wife who acquiesces in her husband's life of crime as well as his adulteries: "Like Carmela,
who was rewarded with jewels, watches and building permits for her husband's infidelities with his goomahs, Hillary,
too, found a way to profit from her husband's failings and flaws.

So, Cathy Young hates her, but she can't think
of any new lies to tell,so she quotes the Dragon lady - is that what
passes for writing a column these days?

On September 30th 2003 Bush told reporters in
Chicago, "If there is a leak out of my administration,I want to know who it is. And if the person has
violated the law, the person will be taken care of..."

Today Bush made good on his promise and took care
of Scooter Libby by commuting his sentence.Unfortunately there is only one remedy for a
president who commutes the sentence of someonewho lied to cover of for his own crimes and that's
impeachment. But the Republicans are standingin the way and allowing Bush to continue to be
lawless.

Excerpt:Within minutes of the Libby announcement, the
same Republican commentators who fulminated when Paris Hilton got a few days knocked off her time
in a county lockup were parroting Mr. Bush's contention that a fine, probation and reputation damage
were 'harsh punishment' enough for Mr. Libby.

Presidents have the power to grant clemency and
pardons. But in this case, Mr. Bush did not sound like a leader making tough decisions about justice.
He sounded like a man worried about what a former loyalistmight say when actually staring into a prison
cell.e

Excerpt:Have you forgotten that your job is to recruit
souls to our cause? Oh sure, Luntz and Morris have determined that,since you forcibly took office six and a half
Earth-years ago, belief in Me has skyrocketed while faith in that littlesocialist bastard Jesus Christ has flat-lined.
But trends show a growing planet-wide disgust with evil. And all youseem to manage is to put a face on it - a smug,
sweaty face at that. This makes Me look ridiculous, and an entityin My position cannot afford to look ridiculous.

Most recently, you've been telling people you're
not part of the executive branch of the US government. No kidding!You are on loan to the RNC from the bowels of
hell, and it is the bowels of hell to which you shall return! And thereyou shall remain a unless, of course, I reassign
you as a soul-skimmer in one of those lovely mega-slums, which aresuch a necessary part of the corporate profiteering
that's led to the purchase of both American political parties forsuch low, low prices!

Make no mistake about it, Cheney, your undead
status is under review. I can't put it any clearer than that. And even if you somehow do manage to escape diabolic
recall, you'll be back here anyway if you keep eating those baconcheeseburgers. (Even My powers
are limited.)

George Bush has lied again to the American people.He promised he would not considering pardoning
or commuting the sentence of Scooter Libbyuntil after the appeals process was completed.
He just commuted his sentence.

George W. Bush has said it is open season against
all our undercover agents in the world.Let's not be surprised if more people in this
administration do this again to get even with agents they don't like.

"Bush has stepped in to short circuit the rule
of law and the system of justice in our country. In so doing, he has acknowledged Mr. Libby's
guilt for, among other things, obstruction of justice, which by definition is covering up for somebody
in a crime. By commuting his sentence, he has brought himself and his office into reasonable
suspicion of participation in an obstruction of justice. The commutation of (Libby's) sentence in and
of itself is participation in obstruction of justice."
-- Joseph Wilson, ,Link

Excerpt:The campaign of John McCain, who once seemed
poised to be his party's nominee in 2008, acknowledgedyesterday that it was in a political and financial
crisis as a drop in fund-raising forced it to dismiss dozens ofworkers and aides and retool its strategy on
where to compete.

The campaign said the decline in contributions
had left it with $2 million. It said it had raised just $11.2 millionover the last three months, despite McCain's
promise to do better than his anemic $13 million showing in thefirst three months of the year.

McCain has been running a suicide campaign all
year.His Kissyface-like insistence that Iraq is a
"great success" 4 is what killed him.

He was never going to be the GOP
nominee, something we told him time and again,yet he continued down the suicide path hoping
for a miracle that would never come.

He's been kissing Bush's Fascist ass for six long
years, and we told him he'd never be president,but he didn't listen and now he's standing there
with nothing but a wrecked ship and a dead crew.

The immigration story is just another red herring
tossed at us by Rove.Personally I'm a lot more afraid of the American
Taliban in Colorado Springs like Dobsonthan I am of some poor campesino trying to, in
the words of Beloved Leader, "put food on his family."

I do have a better idea, Bart: take the 26% that
still worship at the feet of the Boy King -- you know,the ones that would watch him sacrifice a baby
on FoxNews! and then say that it was Hillary's fault --and ship them to Saudi Arabia, where their particular
brand of morality would be appreciated,and then give the 12 million immgrants full citizenship.
Bingo! Problem solved. rdale in Utah

"The arrogance of this administration's disdain
for the law and its belief it operates withimpunity are breathtaking. Will the President
also commute the sentences of others who obstructed justice and lied to grand juries,
or only those who act to protect Bush and Cheney?" --
Bill Richardson, Link

He knew the Democrats would just stand there with their heads up their
asses and cry.
If he thought there was a chance the Democrats would fight back or
take some action
he might think twice about breaking the law and fixing justice after
getting caught.

But he knows the Democrats are paralyzed with fear.
They have been since Reagan stole his way into power.

There's no reason for Bush to follow the law.
If you rob a bank of every dollar they have and nobody even says, "Stop
that,"you're going to rob another bank the next day. When nobody says "Stop
that,"you rob a third bank, then the fourth and then the fifth and then you
steal Iraq's oil.

Bush has been robbing banks for 6 years
and the pussy Democrats remain silent.

...

Shouldn't Democrats change their name of their party to "Gutless wimps?"

I'm not a Hillary supporter. I've got a Barack
ringtone on my phone right now.But I do know this: If Hillary wins the nomination,
God help anyone who tries to SwiftBoat her.

She and Bill have seen what playing nicely by
the rules does to Dems - they get rolled.Bill didn't get rolled by the attacked during
his presidency, as evidenced by his poll numbersas he left. Hillary will NOT be rolled.

There's a lot I don't like about her - her stance
on the war until this year, her cozying up to Wal-Martand her general acceptance of the way coporations
do business in this country - but I'll say this, she's a fighter.I may admire Al Gore, but I'll be calling HILLARY
Madade President.

This is one Dem who plays for keeps, and it's
about time.As you say, it's not a choice between Hillary
and perfection,it's a choice between Hillary and a Rethuglican. Bill in Salisbury, MD

Excerpt:Scooter Libby's sentence was "excessive," Bush
said. In other words, two-and-a-half years in jail for perjury is just way, way over the line in a case in which
the White House and Scooter Libby undermined national security; exposed a CIA agent's cover; and potentially
damaged this agent's covert operation to track unaccounted-for nuclear material (loose nukes)
-- all orchestrated by the vice president and Libby to sucker punch Ambassador Joe Wilson.

So the president all but pardoned Libby by commuting
his prison sentence. The Republican-American punditsand bloggers are, of course, applauding this
action by the president for some reason, which is weird since the same set of googly-eyed Cotton Mathers wanted
President Clinton at least impeached and, at most, castratedafter he was caught lying to a grand jury about
oral sex.

Bush set records for executing people in Texas because, "It's the law
of the land."
But when he and Cheney break the law, it's time to show mercy to the
guy who might implicate them.

Excerpt:Tough enough to execute Karla Fay Tucker -- and
then laugh about it. Tough enough to sign a death warrant for a man whose lawyer slept through the trial
-- and then snicker when asked about it in a debate. Even tough enough to execute a great-grandmother who murdered
her husband -- after he abused her. They asked Bush to commute her sentence, telling him, "Betty Lou
ain't a threat to no one she ain't married to." No dice.

Bush is tough enough to invade a country that
was no risk to America, causing tens of thousands of civilian deaths and shedding precious American blood in the process.
Tough enough to sanction torture. Tough enough to order an American citizen arrested and held without
trial. But if you're rich and right-wing and Republican, George is
a real softie.

Judith Miller spent more time in jail over the
Valerie Plame smear than Scooter Libby.

Did Marc not read up on the case at all?
He usually isn't wrong like this.Wow!

The case has absolutely nothing to do with forced
busing.No forced school choice is involved in this ruling.It is about self-selecting a school that might
actually be further away.

The case was about spoiled white kids upset that
race was a tie breaker for thelast few slots at magnet schools were people
choose to get on buses and travelmiles to get to specific schools better in specific
areas.

Racial identity is not racist. Denying someone
something they deserve based on race alone is racist.Helping break the monotony of all white magnet
schools is not racist. Putting on blinders and assumingrace hasn't been a factor before this in the
lives of the kids is actually more racist than trying to let thingseven out a bit more for a very few of the last
few slots at these specialized schools.

First, the government buys all the land along
the Rio Grande from the riverand 10 miles into Texas (emminent domain and
twice what the land is worth).

The Israelis are offered this land, relocation
expenses and seed money.We continue to contribute aid at the current
rate. This aid will decrease by 1/10 th each year.

This is the new Israeli state, they are completely
independent and autonomous, with one condition.This New Israel must closely monitor the new
border and entry into the U.S.Who better to identify potential terrorists and
maintain order under difficult circumstances?

If Israel scoffs on any principle, even some sacred
land blather, then we owe them nothing.Cost? After the ten year period we will be saving
billions not spent on aid or defending themin a Mideast location and we save the cost of
attempting to control this stretch of our border.

Illegal aliens in country get amnesty, it would
be impossible to apprehend them all, process them, etc.Keep up the excellent work, Scutch

I like the idea, but it involves leaving their
precious Sacred Sand.They've proven again and again they'd rather
watch their children diethan give up their precious Sacred Sand.
It's called "religious insanity."

Bart, it's no accident that the five U.S. Supreme
Court justices who vote in lockstep with the Nazi's inthe White House are Roman Catholics. Liberals
who think of the Catholic Church as liberal and progresivehave got to wake up to the fact that today's
Catholic Church isn't "your father's Catholic Church!"

Ultra Conservatives like Robert Novak aren't convertiing
to the Catholic Church because it's the church ofthe Kennedy's, of Mario Cuomo, Phil Donahue and
Danny Thomas! The Catholic Church in the U.S.A.was liberal for a period of our history because
most of its members at that time were needy recent immigrants.

But today's Catholic hierarchy have reverted to
the Catholic Church's traditional identification with the establishmentand the wealthy. The more "faithful" to their
church Catholics are, the more CONSERVATIVE they are becauseRoman Catholicism is essentially conservative
and antidemocratic, NOT liberal. For tremendous insights as to whatthe Roman Catholic Church REALLY represents,
see http://CatholicArrogance.Org
.

One of the newest pages is about the multiple
murders in and around the Vatican of the most agressive liberalsin the leadership of the Catholic Church in the
late 1970's, including one and perhaps even two popes.( See http://JesusWouldBeFurious.Org/murderedpope.html
).

Excerpt:The Department of Justice maintains published
standards for clemency orders like the one George W. Bush gave Scooter Libby
Monday.

Oh, and as for timing? The standards are very
clear on that: "Requests for commutation generally are not accepted unless and until a person has begun
serving that sentence. Nor are commutation requests generally accepted from persons who are presently challenging
their convictions or sentences through appeal or other court proceeding."

Did the president follow any of these guidelines?
Not so far as we can tell. He didn't refer the case to the Department of Justice pardon attorney, who therefore
didn't consult with Patrick Fitzgerald and didn't ask for an opinion from Judge Reggie Walton. And
Bush granted Libby's request -- wait, did Libby even make a request? -- before Libby began serving his
sentence and while he was still challenging his conviction.

I didn't know Jeffery Toobin was a spinless wimp
until yesterday.CNN had on Nazi Joe Di Genova, who was crying
about how bad poor Libby was treated.He said again and again and again and again that
Clinton pardoned Susan McDougal butToobin didn't have the balls to say, "Yeah,
but that was AFTER she served her sentence."

Those bastard Republicans always pardon
their co-conspirators and they do it because they can.The spinless crybaby Democrats wouldn't show
outrage if you raped their mothers on live TV.

"Judge Walton correctly determined that Libby
deserved to be imprisoned for lying about a matter of national security.
The Constitution gives Bush the power to commute sentences, but history will judge him
harshly..." --
Harry Reid, even more limp than Joe Biden,Link

I hate that "history
will judge you harshly" horseshit.It's like, "God
will punish Hitler after he's dead."

So now we'll celebrate the Fourth of July knowing Fascist bastards with
an
approval rating in the twenties
have hijacked the government but stillthe Democrats are too scared to confront them. That makes me sick.
.
I'll be in a corn coma until Thursday - see you then.

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